The devil is a lie. Rachel Dolezal, a part-time college professor of Africana studies, got a tan and a perm to curl her naturally straight blond hair, married a black man, allegedly took her adopted black brother under her wing as her own child, and has seemingly been passing as black for years.

Her parents recently outed her as the white woman she is, thus igniting a firestorm on social media about how she managed to get one over on so many black folks. (I mean, she allegedly pulled the wool over so many people's eyes that she sashayed her lily-white self up the ranks of a local NAACP chapter in Spokane, Wash., and became its president.)

Twitter reactions have been pouring in by the thousands, with responses ranging from hilarious quips to insightful comments about how Dolezal's "passing" sheds light on underdiscussed issues like minority privilege, appropriation and the fetishization of black culture.

There were the funny ones where the jokes practically wrote themselves.